A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Laud Misc. 147

Summary Catalogue no.: 1322

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1.
Jerome, Commentary on the Minor Prophets
(fol. 1v)

Micah

(Stegmüller, Bibl. 3365)
(fol. 45v)

Habbakuk

(Stegmüller, Bibl. 3367)
(fol. 79v)

Zephaniah

(Stegmüller, Bibl. 3368)
(fol. 108)

Obadiah

(Stegmüller, Bibl. 3362)
(fol. 120)

Jonah

(Stegmüller, Bibl. 3363)
(fol. 137)

Nahum

(Stegmüller, Bibl. 3366)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 208 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 350 × 248 mm.
Dimensions (written): 260 × 168 mm.

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 56, pl. V)

Floriate initials in red penwork on yellow ground.

Binding

Laudian binding, rebacked.

History

Origin: 12th century, first half or middle ; German, West

Provenance and Acquisition

Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: ex libris.

Probably identifiable as b 5 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.

William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.

Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2019) from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p. 287 [physical description, date, provenance]
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 56 [localization]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885 [contents, acquisition]

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2019-05-07: Description revised for Polonsky to incorporate all information in Palmer, Pächt and Alexander and Quarto catalogues.